Quotes About Tactics

You've got to be up-to-date on what your opponent is doing.

Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.

There's gonna be ups and downs throughout the season. And what defenses do to try and attack different quarterbacks, I mean, you can definitely see it. It's how you respond to it. It's how you get over that next step.

Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.

I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.

For me, it's fine to be aggressive and play hard. As long as you're not getting personal, it's fine, and you can do whatever you can to upset the opposition.

A king may rule the kingdom but the queen still moves the board.

Logistics comprises the means and arrangements which work out the plans of strategy and tactics. Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings the troops to this point.

In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds.

When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

The best way to get a move to work is to make it so uncomfortable that the opponent gives it to you to stop the pain.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off

Always work the ref's blind side.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you

Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.

Bowling at Steve Smith in his form is difficult and you have to make sure you take all your chances.